just as sotomayor's american success story should replace the myth. yes, her story is about individuals becoming a nation. but it's also about community. family and negotiating cultural boundaries. it is about overcoming poverty and disease and insecurity and self-discovery and growing as an authentic person. it is about success in america as it really is. sonia sotomayor is the first hispanic in third woman to serve on the u.s. supreme court heard she was born in the bronx and raised in the public housing projects. her parents moved from puerto rico to new york city during world war ii. her father became a factory worker and her mother joined the women's auxiliary corps. she was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of seven years old and her father died he was nine years old. she and her younger brother were raised by a single mother. her brother is now a doctor. she graduated aside victorian of her high school class and she graduated from princeton university summa cum laude, receiving the highest honors as a graduate. while at yale, she added that th